The Clue
More sad (5 letter answer)
The Answer
BLUER
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Notes
The answer BLUER is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1800 puzzles.
Related Clues
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Definition
BLUE as an adjective:
1. (blue, bluish, blueish) = of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
3. (blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited) = low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
4. (blasphemous, blue, profane) = characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
5. (blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy) = suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
6. (aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician) = belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
7. (blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical) = morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
8. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"